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100Beguiling, moving and just plain fun documentary.
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100This is an excellent movie -- by all means, flock to it!
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It's a special, strangely soothing movie experience that wonderfully celebrates the intricate diversity of life on Earth and the profound emotional bond that can exist between man and beast.
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90One of the most beautiful and endearing nature films you've ever seen, despite being filmed almost entirely within a major metropolis, and a love story that will repeatedly reduce you to tears.
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90Mostly, Wild Parrots is a great, important, and unforgettable movie.
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90The film is both wise and tender in its treatment of relationships -- between birds, between people, and between birds and people.
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89Well-considered, beautifully made, and often gripping in its narrative, the film epitomizes the best the documentary format can offer.
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88The kind of well-crafted, character-driven work that wows regional film festival crowds and public television audiences but seldom gets seen outside those circles.
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88Judy Irving's terrific documentary 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is ostensibly about birds, but only in the way that a game of Scrabble is about tiles.
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83In watching the birds and the man with an affectionate, curious eye, the filmmaker builds a story of surprising emotional resonance.
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Genuinely sweet, beautifully constructed documentary.
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80The movie winds its way artfully from a straight animal study to something more profound. It's hard to shake the film's astonishing final thoughts and shots, as Bittner nervously contemplates parrot eggs while hawks circle overhead.
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80The mellow, serendipitous The Parrots of Telegraph Hill is here to show you just how magical happenstance can be.
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80It thaws the soul.
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80This is a charmfest of a movie, for bird lovers and non-bird lovers alike.
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80Quite simply, a beautiful film, in both form and content.
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75It is not the film you think it is going to be. You walk in expecting some kind of North Beach weirdo and his wild-eyed parrot theories, and you walk out still feeling a little melancholy over the plight of Connor.
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75Lovely to look at, if not very deep in its thinking about relations between humans and their animal friends.
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75The documentary also has a story to tell, and as such it builds up its drama.
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In the charming new documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, we learn all about the tragedy and comedy of being a bird on the loose in San Francisco.
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In traditional stories, it's saints, madmen and children who befriend wild animals. Mark Bittner, who pals around with feral creatures in the amiable documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, is just as much an outsider, though of a different sort.
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75A cornball charmer of a film with some beautiful birds and homespun wisdom.
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70Several sharp jolts give the doc its dramatic shape, and one episode in particular, caught with a neighbor's lens, will make you gasp with grief.
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70In Ms. Irving's affectionate film, Mr. Bittner is more of a sage than a deadbeat.
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70A charming look at the mildly eccentric man who gained modest feature-page celebrity for his familiarity with San Francisco's tropical parrot flock.
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63A loving, dopey documentary about the bird man of a place with a view of Alcatraz.
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60Though Bittner's slacker charm may not be to all tastes, the parrots are natural-born scene-stealers with more than enough charm to seduce the most dubious viewer.
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MarkK.8A nice documentary! Try to push March of the Penguins out for your memory, and you will enjoy it more.
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